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title: "145 – WELSTech Road Trip: Citrus Heights, CA"
description: "The WELSTech Podcast Road Trip travels to California to hear the tech-in-ministry success story of St. Mark’s in Citrus Heights. Road trip: (3:20) Technology serving St. Mark’s – Joining Martin and Sallie today are Maren McPeak, Webmaster, and Matt Bauer, Principal, from St. Mark’s in Citrus Heights, CA.  Listen as they share technology ideas from their church […]"
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# [145 – WELSTech Road Trip: Citrus Heights, CA](https://welstech.wels.org/2010/08/18/145-welstech-road-trip-citrus-heights-ca)

 Written by [Sallie Draper](https://welstech.wels.org/author/sallie-draper) | Aug 18, 2010 4:00:28 AM

The WELSTech Podcast Road Trip travels to California to hear the tech-in-ministry success story of St. Mark’s in Citrus Heights.

[https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Podcast_145.mp3](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Podcast_145.mp3)

Podcast: [Download](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Podcast_145.mp3) (27.8MB)

### Road trip:

(3:20) Technology serving St. Mark’s – Joining Martin and Sallie today are Maren McPeak, Webmaster, and Matt Bauer, Principal, from [St. Mark’s](http://www.stmarkslutheran.com/) in Citrus Heights, CA.  Listen as they share technology ideas from their church and school including use of their web site, iTunes, Facebook and Moodle.

- Check out all the content on the [St. Mark’s](http://www.stmarkslutheran.com/) site to get ideas for your church or school site
- View the sample Moodle course used to train students to update the St. Mark’s church and school Google calendar
- Download [the Google calendar Moodle course backup](https://welstech.wels.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/backup-st._mark_s_google_calendars_101-20100812-1554.zip) and restore on your own Moodle site
- View instructions for logging into a sample Schoology.com course created by Maren

*The WELSTech Road Trip Tracker*

### Picks of the week:

- (21:10) [ThatQuiz.org](http://www.thatquiz.org/)
- [Kindle for PC](http://www.amazon.com/KindleForPC)

### Community feedback:

- (29:15) Pastor Dan Witte from [Risen Savior](http://www.rsavior.com) in Lakewood Ranch, FL shared a link to [The 2010 Social Networking Map](http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-2010-social-networking-map) (infographic)
- Jason Schmidt from [Gethsemane](http://falconnet.gethlc.org/mambo/) in Omaha, NE posted a Diigo link to PB Work’s page of [Best Practices for Classroom Wikis](http://educators.pbworks.com/Best-Practices)
- Perry Lund from [Grace](http://www.grace-wels.org/) in Oskaloosa, IA shared a link to [OmniFocus for iPad](http://educators.pbworks.com/Best-Practices) for GTD-style project management

### Coming up on WELSTech:

(36:34) Episode 146 – The summer 2010 WELSTech Road Trip series wraps up with a virtual visit to three states as we compare and contrast Bible study software.  (Release date 08/25/10)

### The featured artist:

(37:44) This week we feature the music of  Koine ([www.koinemusic.com](http://www.koinemusic.com) | [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Koine/63717794924?ref=ts)) – *Fight the Good Fight *from their CD titled ”Church Bells”

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